Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan / Terrorist Or Not?

Here in Central Texas, no other news stories have been reported over the past couple of day except for the shooting rampage of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan . Then Sunday morning on a national morning television news program, a U.S. Senator said that he would being hearings soon to determine if Maj. Nidal Hasan was a terrorist or not. Most people I have talked to believe that Maj. Hasan was just plain nuts and that is why he killed over a dozen people at Foot Hood, Texas last week. However, there are Members of Congress and other high U.S. government officials that want to know if there was more to Maj. Nidal Hasan actions than just a crazy man that wanted others to die with him in a blaze of bullets. I must admit that I too wondered to being with if Maj. Nidal Hasan was a terrorist or not when I learned that he believed in extreme Islam and considered the United States of America and all citizens that live here as evil.

It is very understandable that President Barack Obama and the U.S. military want to downplay the effect religion had on the actions of Maj. Nidal Hasan. However, now is not the time to get so politically correct that important warning signs from Maj. Hasan's past are swept under the rug - because they might reflect negatively on the U.S. Army or President Obama. I do not believe that Maj. Nidal Hasan was a terrorist, but instead I believe that he is just an unstable man that is just like the hundreds of others that pick up guns each year and take the lives of others. While I personally wish that Maj. Hasan would have died too in last weeks shootings at Fort Hood, Texas - maybe with time and medication, the U.S. Army will be able to learn some things about him that could help mental health experts to discover the mind set of mass killers before they strike.

In hindsight, it is easy for me to see why the U.S. Army did not honor Maj. Nidal Hasan request to be discharged. It is likely that U.S. taxpayers spend tens of thousands of dollars to pay for the educational training that was necessary for Maj. Hasan to become a medical doctor, so the powers that be in the military did not want to waste taxpayers money by allowing him to leave the U.S. Army and begin a private practice before all the requirements of his tour of duty were completed. If that does turn out to be the reason why the U.S. Army did not discharge Maj. Nidal Hasan - then in the future there must be some other way found for the U.S. taxpayers not to be ripped off, while at the same time protecting the lives of our soldiers right here on American soil. There are mass shortages in some areas of the medical field in the U.S. Army right now, so my opinion at this time is that Maj. Nidal Hasan was not discharged from the U.S. Army - because of his extremist beliefs, because there was no one else qualified to take his place on the battle field.

While it is worse than terrible that U.S. soldiers and civilians were killed last week by one of their own at Fort Hood, Texas - every single day, some unstable person in the United States walks into a business or their own home and starts shooting people. Sadly, Maj. Nidal Hasan is just the latest nut case that did not know how to accept personal responsibly - so he decided to teach everyone else a lesson - because of his narrow minded vision of what life should really be about. I always worry when I meet someone like Maj. Nidal Hasan who does not have the ability to accept responsibility for their own actions, so they blame everyone in the world for their own rotten lot in life instead of themselves. In the end, I believe it will be proven that Maj. Nidal Hasan is not a terrorist - but instead just another run of the mill mass murderer that never learned how to take personal responsibility, so he blamed everyone else for his problems - except himself.